Anticipated End Date:2026-10-30
Position Title:Agile Project Owner Senior
Job Description:Location: This role requires associates to be in-office
1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.
Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless accommodation is granted as required by law.
The
Agile Project Owner Senior is responsible for acting as a member of the Agile leadership team and is the functional and/or client (or business) representative for a project or set of projects within a market-focus to ensure stakeholder satisfaction and business value delivered.
How you'll make a difference:- Serves as the customer proxy and therefore is the liaison between the business and the Scrum Teams; translating features into complex user stories within a teams backlog and managing, ranking and prioritizing this backlog so that it is reflective of stakeholder requirements and priorities.
- Final testing and acceptance of the user stories supporting the features.
- Effectively communicate to the team the stakeholder needs so the teams delivery meets both contractual requirements and established acceptance criteria, including expected quality and performance and to complete various work management activities according to defined service level commitments and process compliancy guidelines.
- Collaborate with team(s) to discover and deliver the best solution to the market problem(s) presented by the Product Manager (business).
- Works with the business to understand coordinate ranking and prioritize business needs and plan solutions to ensure that each release provides business value to end users sales and marketing.
- Manage the solution concept development process to ensure the product team understand the direction and vision.
- Create and maintain regularly backlog of work through the project's life cycle.
- Understands how to write user stories and their acceptance criteria.
- Translates the product backlog into user stories.
- Serve as the Product Management (business) proxy and decision point to represent the stakeholders in the project.
- Reviews and accepts/rejects results both during a Sprint and in the Sprint review.
- Attends sprint meetings and is available to team during the sprint for clarifications and acceptance of user stories.
- Creates and/or inputs into a projects release plan.
- Presents work to team from Team Backlog during Sprint Planning for acceptance by the Team, Sprint negotiates, and Sprint goals.
Minimum Qualifications:- Requires a BA/BS and minimum of 5 years experience with writing business/functional requirements and experience implementing Agile methodologies; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
Preferred skills, qualifications and experience:- Leading SAFe (SA) certification, CSPO or equivalent (Certified Scrum Product Owner) and/or SPO/PM (SAFE Product Owner/Product Manager) strongly preferred.
- Payment Integrity experience highly preferred.
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Job Level:Non-Management Exempt
Workshift:Job Family:BSP > Business Support
Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.
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Job Level:Non-Management Exempt
Workshift:Job Family:BSP > Business Support
Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.
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